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George Osborne will set out the government's spending plans in the Autumn Statement and Spending Review at 12.30pm today. It's the first since the Conservatives were elected, and Osbourne looks set to announce the detail of £20bn of cuts to departmental budgets, and £12bn cuts to welfare. He'll promise £7bn for new housebuilding, and will also announce plans to mitigate the effects of tax credit cuts, after the government's original measures were blocked by the House of Lords last month.

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Yes but that's the point the WRAG group will exists but with little benefit to the claimant. People will receive less money and be expected to look for work rather than prepare for work.

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Sorry for any confusion. Thankyou andnowitseven for following me around threads and being more clear than me!

I wasn't stalking you honestly. I received dla and although I wouldn't be affected by the cap, it concerned me greatly.

I hadn't thought you were stalking me I do now just wanted to thankyou for clearing up any confusion, or distress, I might have inadvertently caused.

I think he did a really good job. He protected the NHS and the police and we definitely need a lot more houses to be built. There are many people who want to buy property but there simply are not enough houses to go round.
As for defence...nobody wants to spend money on it until we are attacked as Paris was.....then it changes.
I am another who wants GO for the next PM

Why is everyone on MN so left wing?
There must be many people who support the Tories be cause they did win the election and cutting welfare was in their manifesto, and was one of the reasons I voted Tory rather than UKIP

loads of people vote tory on mn, there was a whole thread where they all posted a while back

I didn't vote Tory and won't. Cutting welfare was in their manifesto, yet I personally know people who voted for them because of that point and the 'promise' to protect the genuinely ill/disabled (which was total rubbish) - there were a lot of people who fell for that.

Anyway, I wanted to reply now and say I have seen what has happened to pro-Tory threads on MN and frankly they descend into utter chaos.

I am a tax inspector for HMRC and we were told on 12th November that we would be reducing from 100+ sites in the UK to 12 by 2021. 12 sites!

My office is outside Reasonable daily travel and will close in 2017.

There are no other civil service jobs in my location (a major city, but that's another topic!)

My salary is 21,000 pa - I bring in, in lost revenue, approx £800,00 pa to the government.

As part of the spending review it has been announced that exit schemes for civil servants will be (further) reformed. Currently I would leave with 21 mth salary which would at least give me time to get a lower paid job. Now I'll just be on the DWP list. Thanks a bunch you Tory voters. Who's going to bring in the revenue now?

My salary is 21,000 pa - I bring in, in lost revenue, approx £800,00 pa to the government
that sounds like the epitome of false economy:(
how is hmrc supposed to function with such a massive reduction in sites, are they hoping that the work of tax inspectors can be done by computer algorithm?

Alexdrake If your salary is 21K pa you are either only p/t or you are not a Tax Inspector. The salary you are qouting is more like that for a Tax Officer, or even these days, a Revenue Assistant.......

I retired from HMRC 7 years ago and my salary then was about 21k. And I was NOT an Inspector......

Also, your target for Revenue is far too tiddly for an Inspector........

I think he did a really good job. He protected the NHS

He may have thrown some money at the NHS but with the withdrawal of bursaries and the lack of university places, Nursing in the NHS is a serious concern.

This Govt is doing all that it can to make the NHS destabilise. The money means nothing if we cannot recruit Nurses or Drs.

If most tax investiagation these days is electronic - did he buy that Rolls, did she put that money in Jersey then I would imagine we need a very very few offices rather than lots of local expensive ones. On redundancies in the private sector you get about a week's pay uo to £475 for each year of service so say after 7 years £3325. If the state is paying its workers more than that I doubt tax payers would be very happy.

There are Tories on MN. I am one. I think GO and DC are a bit wet and not doing enough to balance our books but they are better than most alternatives.

Tax evasion cannot be dealt with electronically. You need people on the ground to tackle, in all corners of the country. The tax gap will rocket.

BMW - yes I am part time, on the top of the pay scale, which hasn't moved for 7 years due to the pay freeze ( those lower down the scale receive a maximum 1%).

DeoGratias - the proposals are yet another attack and our T&Cs. You become a civil servant knowing that your salary will never be as high as what you would earn in private industry but you weigh that up with the protection that your T&Cs bring. I am also a taxpayer and despair at what HMRC is becoming. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. That is the HMRC of the future.

He hasn't protected the NHS at all. Have a look at this graph, which shows how the NHS is now in its longest ever period of spending reduction in real terms. It is just classic politician spin, and no surprises, the media are either in bed with them (Murdoch) or under their firm control (BBC) now. I'm grieving for our Aunty Beeb too.

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